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Amazon Unifies Prime Video, MGM+ And Freevee Third-Party Partnership Efforts Under Andrew Bennett – Deadline

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EXCLUSIVE: In its latest corporate realignment, Amazon has created a single unit for third-party living room device business development and partner marketing for Prime Video, MGM+ and Freevee. Leading those activities will be company veteran Andrew Bennett. After heading up Prime Video’s living room device partnership efforts since 2017, Bennett is now VP and head of global video partnerships … Read more

Amazon Freevee Rescues ‘Neighbours’ – Deadline

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Insiders: it’s Friday, you’re hungry for a recap of big international film and TV news and I’ve got a pot of stories boiling on the hob. Jesse Whittock here dishing up the scoops of the week. Amazon Freevee Rescues ‘Neighbours’ Amazon Freevee/Fremantle “With a little understanding/You can find the perfect blend…”: So goes the Neighbours theme that … Read more

Amazon Freevee Saves ‘Neighbours’ After Channel 5 Axing – Deadline

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Turns out it wasn’t a final goodbye from Australia’s Neighbours after all. The iconic soap, about the Ramsay Street residents in the fictional Erinsborough, has been saved from the scrapheap by Amazon’s free streamer Freevee, following a deal with program maker Fremantle. A new series will begin filming in Australia next year, with the likes of Stefan … Read more

Imani Pullum To Star In Kagiso Lediga Coming-Of-Age Drama At Freevee – Deadline

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EXCLUSIVE: Rising young actor Imani Pullum (Emancipation, The Orville: New Horizons) has been cast as the lead in Amazon Freevee’s coming-of-age drama Untitled Kagiso Lediga Project. The eight-episode series hails from Queen Sono creator Lediga, Skybound Galactic, a joint venture between Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, and Johannesburg-based producer Diprente. Pullum will play the lead role … Read more

Guy Burnet, Daniella Pineda Join ‘Western’ Freevee Comedy Pilot – Deadline

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EXCLUSIVE: Guy Burnet, Luca Diaz and Daniella Pineda have been cast opposite Anna Konkle in Amazon Freevee’s Western, a half-hour period comedy pilot from Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Sony TV-based Lord Miller. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders Written by Michelle Morgan, Western is set in the 1800s. It follows Polly (Konkle), … Read more

Star Wars Doc Acquired By Amazon Freevee In UK – Deadline

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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee has picked up Icons Unearthed: Star Wars for the UK, the doc series that features the first tell-all on-camera interview with George Lucas’ former wife Marcia Lucas. The landmark series aired over the summer in the U.S. on Vice TV and has since been renewed for a second season, which will showcase The Simpsons. … Read more